The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found a GP breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for his delays in advising the results of a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test to his patient
Millions of New Zealanders are expected to be able to access their health records online from mid-2024 as part of the first stage of Te Whatu Ora’s Hira programme
Burned-out GPs need politicians to stop using health as a political football and to instead agree on solutions to the general practice crisis, leading GPs say
GPs keen to see urgent action on workforce and funding can now see a plan, but it’s a plan to do the policy work for a plan – and it has been slated. Changes can still be made in the short term but these will be in the existing funding settings, as Stephen Forbes reports
A 24-hour strike from 3pm tomorrow will see the country’s backbone Healthline and other national telehealth services prioritising services to “people in immediate danger”
An outpouring of despair about the future of general practice in New Zealand, and an admission to the lure of higher Australian pay rates, has been unleashed by an official’s comments in a Te Whatu Ora webinar
Martin Johnston asked urgent and after-hours practice representatives how they are coping this winter. ‘With difficulty’ was the answer, amid pay disparity that is leading nurses to desert
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management